🚨 My first PhD paper is out! In this preregistered study, we assessed how menopause-related factors, depression, and genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease (APOE ε4) are linked to cellular and brain aging in women using data from the UK biobank. 🧵 https://t.co/CTWQEfbkGK

Menopause is a hot topic right now—and misinformation is on the rise. An ob-gyn shares tips to help you spot misinformation and make informed decisions. Get the facts about menopause: https://t.co/uMPTkpftnB #MyMenopause

🧠👏🏼@GuardianAus @guardian great sci-comm!

A 25-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes started producing her own insulin less than three months after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells. “I can eat sugar now,” she told me on a call.

Mapping neuroanatomical changes in an individual from preconception through #pregnancy and 2 years postpartum @laura_pritschet @chrastil @emilyjacobs @ucsantabarbara @UCIrvine @Bowers_WBHI https://t.co/9yNxmjtlkh

Very excited to share one of my favourite PhD papers with you... We found that oestrogen-based hormone therapy can prevent psychosis relapse in women with schizophrenia during menopause 🧵(1/11)

That's my supervisor 🙌 💪 proud student!!

🌟 The Women's Health Seminar Series is back! 🌟 Get ready to dive into the latest multidisciplinary research in women's health with our exciting line-up of expert speakers. The schedule is now out, and registration is OPEN 🙌 🔗 Learn more & register: https://t.co/xEYeo7bdzI

Happy to see that @TheLancet promotes our review in @TheLancetEndo, nicely highlighting the importance of female health research! 💪 Thanks to @ACrestol for sharing the tweet with me!

New Preprint 🚨! In this preregistered study, @hannah_oppen investigates the causal link of estradiol levels and factors related to estradiol exposure with brain age gap, Alzheimer’s disease risk, and depression risk, using Mendelian randomisation (MR). https://t.co/Iw0QrRjk9n

New study alert! We explored the impact of antipsychotic-induced prolactin elevation on estrogen levels in premenopausal women with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SSD). 🧵 (1/8)

Far from women’s health being a “niche” area -putting more effort into understanding the multifaceted area of women’s health will lead to exciting new discoveries that will benefit all, regardless of our gender.

Thank you to my amazing co-authors @nifti12, @louisesophie98, @SivaniyaSubram, @hannah_oppen, @AnnMariedeLange, @larswestlye, @oleaandreassen, @cktamnes, Stener Nerland, and Ingrid Agartz

✨Overall, this study highlights both a need for more studies with a focus on women’s health, and more representative samples to advance scientific research.

Our findings were puzzling, likely due to a common bias in research: participants, particularly older ones, tend to be healthier than the general population. These puzzling findings are also a prime example of the importance of preregistration!

Finally, we determined whether these proxies of aging were associated with each other and saw no significant results.

Next, we examined additive and interactive relations between menopause-related factors with depression and APOE ε4, and saw that adding depression and APOE ε4 explained the most variance across proxies of aging.

We saw that postmenopause and older age at menopause were linked to longer telomere length - our marker of cellular aging, and lower brain age gap - our marker of brain aging. Surgical menopause and longer reproductive span were also associated with longer telomeres.

Check out this blogpost written by the #FemHealth dream team @hannah_oppen & @ACrestol 🥳

New Paper 🚨 Check out our latest review on the interplay of oxytocin & sex hormones!